July 2
July 3
July 4
Diminished Capacity
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
We are Together
July 9
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August
Eight Miles High
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
July 18
A Very British Gangster
Before I Forget
Felon
Lou Reed's Berlin
Transsiberian
July 22
July 23
I was going to tap out a glowing review of Terence Davies' Of Time and the City, a spiritual lament about the director's hometown of Liverpool. It's a sublime marriage of poetry, archival footage, snippy social criticism, and nostalgia for a lost and irretrievable past. It hits you gently and yet powerfully. Especially if you have a feeling for the fraying of social cohesion and family structure that has happened everywhere since the '50s.

Davies -- short, bespectacled, pinkish complexion, gleaming white hair, traditional black tuxedo -- took a bow before last night's 10 pm showing at the Salle du Soixantieme. One of his producer pals said on the mike, "He's back...and he's beautiful."
And like I said, I was going to write about it...but the line for the 11:30 showing of Clint Eastwood's Changeling/The Exchange -- 85 minutes from now! -- is already getting pretty long so I'd better get down there. Why don't people just hang back and wait until 10:45 or so to line up? Who wants to wait in line this long?
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 21, 2008 at 12:54 AM
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says ...For the life of me I can't understand why anyone would ever feel nostalgic about the fifties. As a surt of cultural short-hand, sure, but it seems the great thing people miss from those days were the lack of choice. After all one would usually get the job that was expected of you, get married young, have kids, have a wife at home/husband away all the time, complete paranoia about communists infiltrating societies (not talking about the US alone here), far less sexual liberation, strict rules for behaviour based on gender, less possibility of traveling. It seems to me the only remarkable thing was that WW2 was five years in the past when the decade started, so people's troubles were put somewhat into perspective.
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